To ask your ultimate roast chicken accompaniments...

[Newbie1999]

Making a roast next week. I’m a pretty good cook but rarely cook roasts. Want it to be gooood. Any tips, particularly for the sides?

Bread sauce - food of the Gods!

Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with gravy.

Mash
Roasties
Carrot and swede mashed with lots of pepper
Yorkshires
Broccoli

Bread sauce is a MUST, I talk about bread sauce more than I talk about my kids.

Oh and gravy with a glug of sherry And a tablespoon of recurrant jelly.

Cheesy leeks

Pork stuffing
White wine gravy
Cauliflower cheese
Italian cabbage
Roast potatoes

Chicken crackling. Peel off the skin when chicken is roasted.lay on a roasting sheet. Put back in the oven for about 10 minutes. Crispy crunchy gorgeous stuff.

Crispy, rosemary roast potatoes
Cauliflower & broccoli cheese
Roasted carrots
Honey roasted parsnips
Lots of gravy. Lots.

anything as long as at least one accompaniment is Yorkshire pudding.

Dauphenoise potatoes. Yum. We always had apple sauce with toast chicken when I was a kid too.

Broccoli gratin.

Roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, stuffing, gravy, honey roast carrots/parsnips, balsamic roasted brussel sprouts.

Pigs in blankets, home made gravy and stuffing

Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Broccoli and cauliflower cheese
Savoy cabbage
Mashed swede and carrot
NO YORKSHIRES WITH CHICKEN

I do cheesy leaks & honey roasted parsnips when I want a fancy roast. Usual sides are broc, carrots, cauli cheese, cabbage, roasts, mash & yorkshires.

@Cocomelt speak to me about the cheesy leeks please

We always have red cabbage!

We always have lots of veg.

Carrot and swede mashed up
Parsnips
Cauliflower cheese
Red cabbage.
Broccoli
I have tinned peas on mine the others have petit poi's
Red cabbage

I also need more info on the cheesy leeks... was thinking of doing a cheeky leek/pancetta/breadcrumb topping concoction?

What’s the best way to cook red cabbage?

Mashed parsnips

I buy the microwave ready made one

@WingingItMumma

Crispy, rosemary roast potatoes Cauliflower & broccoli cheese Roasted carrots Honey roasted parsnips Lots of gravy. Lots.

I'm coming to yours :)

Yum

I’m
A bit
Obsessed with braised red cabbage.

I never used to do Yorkshires but went to a friends for Christmas dinner and she did them. My family insisted from then on.